Fiction

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ron Hansen
In this retelling of one of the great classic tales of the American West, James comes across as a complex character, a new age type with an interest i…

The Sleeping Army
Francesca Simon
An exciting new novel for children 8+ from one of the bestselling children's authors in the world, the creator of the Horrid Henry series

The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
Beautiful hardback edition of the bestselling classic ghost story, now a major film

The Small Hand
Susan Hill
The chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible hand … an exceptional and bestselling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black a…

Butcher's Broom
Neil M. Gunn
An epic historical novel set in the Scottish Highlands which depicts the decline of rural culture, by one of the leading lights of the Scottish renais…

Hard Life
Flann O'Brien
An effervescently brilliant novel by the great Irish master of invention, Flann O'Brien.

Morning Tide
Neil M. Gunn
Poetic and poignant, Morning Tide is the story of a young boy learning what it means to be a man.

Mysteries
Knut Hamsun
A wild masterpiece by a Nobel prize winner championed by influential writers such as Karl Ove Knausgaard and Doris Lessing

Tales of Love and Loss
Knut Hamsun
With twenty stories ranging over every human emotion and situation, Tales of Love and Loss collects many of Hamsun's short stories translated int…

The Ring is Closed
Knut Hamsun
THE FIRST UK EDITION OF HAMSUN'S LAST GREAT NOVEL;A NEW TRANSLATION BY ROBERT FERGUSON, HAMSUN'S BIOGRAPHER

Ghost Stories: The best of The Daily Telegraph's ghost story competition
Lorna Bradbury
Six ghost stories to make your spine tingle and your mind race

The Magic Christian
Terry Southern
A satire of the tackier underbelly of the American dream, which became a cult film starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr.

The Horn
John Clellon Holmes
One of the best jazz novels ever written, by John Clellon Holmes, a figure in the Beat literary movement of the mid 20th century.

Pieces of Modesty
Peter O'Donnell
The first collection of pulse-pounding short stories featuring the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise

Four Stories
Alan Bennett
Here are Alan Bennett's four hugely admired, triumphantly reviewed and bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time.

A Taste for Death
Peter O'Donnell
In the fourth instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must save a young woman from the criminal underworld

The Cobra Trap
Peter O'Donnell
The final collection of pulse-pounding short stories featuring the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise

Gilgamesh
Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version. It is as eloquent and nuanced as his translations of Rilke. This is certainly the best that…